| A | B |
|---|
| Radical Republicans | Congressmen who favored tough order in the South and rights for blacks |
| Reconstruction | Process used to readmit Confederate states to Union |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Federal agency set up to help former slaves |
| Andrew Johnson | Served as vice-president under Lincoln; became president when Lincoln was killed |
| black codes | Laws by Southern states that limited freedon of former slaves |
| civil rights | Rights granted to all citizens |
| Fourteenth Amendment | Amendment, passed 1868, that made ALL persons, born or naturalized in U. S. citizens |
| freedmen's schools | Schools set up to educate newly freed African Americans |
| sharecropping | System which poor farm workers gave landowners rent in the form of crops |
| Ku Klux Klan | Group formed in 1866 that wanted white supremecy in the South and keep blacks powerless |
| lynch | to hang without a trial as punishment for a supposed crime |
| Fifteenth Amendment | This 1870 Amendment stated citizens could not be stopped from voting "on account of race, color, or slavery" |
| Panic of 1873 | a financial crisis in which banks closed and the stock market dropped |
| Compromise of 1877 | Agreement that resolved 1876 election dispute; Rutherford B. Hayes became president |
